"The Northern Echo" printed the following one week earlier:

"Almost everyone will know the words, perhaps with slight variations; the tune may need no rehearsing either...:

All of a sudden
A dirty great puddin',
Came floating through the air.
It missed me mother
And hit me father
And knockeed him off his chair....

Are there any more verses to this North-East classic?..."

The tune is part one of "Blaze Away!" a "March and Two-Step" composed in 1901 by Abe Holzmann (and not, as is often assumed, by John Philip Sousa).